Snails on red bull: A sincere concoction of the tales of our travels in Varrena ~ April 8th

So once again the duty of this confounded blog has fallen to me. Oh Joy. But anywho, today we caught the ferry across to Varrena, at least that was when we found the right ferry.

When we did board the correct vessel we sailed REASONABLY slowly, like a snail after drinking 3 litres of red bull, across the Lago Di Como. As it turned out we had the whole boat to ourselves, although I do feel it was a missed opportunity because I'm sure there was lots more fun to be had on a pretty empty boat. I'm pretty sure there must of been some freebies somewhere even if it was just sugar, which might even of sped up the snails but it might just make them need the toilet. But yeah, those are just my deeply respected personal opinions. After we disembarked the ghost ship we started to walk round the town and walked through the narrow streets which the guide book specifically implored would be 'a gentle stroll through trafficless streets so you do not have to worry about cars' Well, what can I say, I think it must have been written in the 17th century before cars were invented or something because it was about as true as the earth is flat. Anyways we stopped at a tourist office and found our way to local castella. We were 'reliably' informed that one route would take us through the woods with lots of rocks to climb. Now, I don't know how similar Italian is to English but... I was expecting a nice wood with LOTS of trees and big rocks to climb. But sadly it turns out I was wrong because I was thinking 'Climb rocks, by invitation, through the woods, absolutely' Because normally there just happens to a big rock there because Obelix* put one there in Asterix and the enormously large rocks of Italy. And you climb them because it's fun. So I feeling quite happy and excited about this but as it turns out the person at the tourist was being quite hyperboletic about this. Because the rocks turned out to just be the many thousand stone steps which we had to climb but it wasn't quite as 'fun' as I was expecting. But anyway after that we saw a castle had lunch stopped at a cafe and had drinks and my parents had piadines and we played on a beach a bit later. And yes we did later go down the other route in case we had got a bit confuzzeled (confused and muddled) just to check but no, sadly there were no big rocks. That was basically our day :)

~Zach~